Hebrews 11:7

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By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

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  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
  • Rom 4:13 : 13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
  • Ezek 14:14 : 14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Ezek 14:20 : 20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.
  • Gen 6:13-7:1 : 13 So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you should make it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for the ark and finish it, leaving 18 inches from the top. Put a door in the side of the ark, and make lower, middle, and upper decks. 17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die, 18 but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark– you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You must bring into the ark two of every kind of living creature from all flesh, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive. 21 And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.” 22 And Noah did all that God commanded him– he did indeed. 1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
  • Rom 9:30 : 30 Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,
  • Luke 17:26 : 26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.
  • Heb 11:1 : 1 People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 The Judgment of the Flood This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • 2 Pet 3:6 : 6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”
  • Rom 3:22 : 22 namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,
  • Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
  • Rom 10:6 : 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says:“Do not say in your heart,‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”(that is, to bring Christ down)
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
  • Gen 7:5 : 5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
  • Gen 7:23 : 23 So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
  • Gen 8:16 : 16 “Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
  • Gen 19:14 : 14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
  • Exod 9:18-21 : 18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 19 So now, send instructions to gather your livestock and all your possessions in the fields to a safe place. Every person or animal caught in the field and not brought into the house– the hail will come down on them, and they will die!”’” 20 Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses, 21 but those who did not take the LORD’s message seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.
  • Prov 22:3 : 3 A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.
  • Prov 27:12 : 12 A shrewd person saw danger–he hid himself; the naive passed right on by– they had to pay for it.
  • Ezek 3:17-19 : 17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me. 18 When I say to the wicked,“You will certainly die,” and you do not warn him– you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked lifestyle so that he may live– that wicked person will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 19 But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 12:41-42 : 41 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here! 42 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon– and now, something greater than Solomon is here!
  • Matt 24:15 : 15 The Abomination of Desolation“So when you see the abomination of desolation– spoken about by Daniel the prophet– standing in the holy place”(let the reader understand),
  • Matt 24:25 : 25 Remember, I have told you ahead of time.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
  • Luke 11:31-32 : 31 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon– and now, something greater than Solomon is here! 32 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Pet 2:5
    79%

    5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

  • 1 Pet 3:20
    76%

    20after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

  • Gen 7:1
    76%

    1The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

  • Heb 11:1-6
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    76%

    1People Commended for Their Faith Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

    2For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.

    3By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

    4By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

    5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

  • Heb 11:8-11
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    8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

    9By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

    10For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

    11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

  • Gen 7:4-7
    4 verses
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    4For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

    5And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

    6Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    7Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

  • Gen 6:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.

    9The Judgment of the Flood This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

  • Gen 7:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

    10And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

    11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    12And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

    13On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives.

  • 2 Pet 3:5-6
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    5For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.

    6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

  • Heb 11:27-31
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    71%

    27By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

    28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

    29By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

    31By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

  • Gen 6:22
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    22And Noah did all that God commanded him– he did indeed.

  • Gen 8:15
    70%

    15Then God spoke to Noah and said,

  • Rom 1:17
    70%

    17For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”

  • Gen 7:17-18
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    17The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

    18The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 6:14
    69%

    14Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

  • Gen 15:6
    69%

    6Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.

  • Gen 8:6
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    6At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

  • Heb 11:39
    69%

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

  • Gal 3:6
    69%

    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    69%

    23So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

    24The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.

  • Gen 9:17
    68%

    17So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

  • Gen 8:2
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    2The fountains of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were closed, and the rain stopped falling from the sky.

  • Gen 9:8
    68%

    8God said to Noah and his sons,

  • Heb 11:17
    68%

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

  • Gen 5:29
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    29He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”